<p>seriously....now this threads are making me ashamed to be black...</p>
<p>seriously people...</p>
<p>errr... ok. If you dont have anything to add, dont post.</p>
<p>Yeah but if the black kid gets admitted, that is really f*!^ed up. I mean how much more can black people be favored. Asians worked themeselves to the top. why cant blacks and latinos. Why do schools care about their minority numbers anyway?</p>
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<p>Great questions for you to ask your congressman.</p>
<p>AA is hurting the very people it is supposed to be helping. If people were truly interested in helping URMs, they would start young. Emphasize education for URMs from an early age. Treat them like others, that way they get the same opportunities as everyone else. </p>
<p>Simply giving URMs a boost in the admissions processes only further solidifies society's prejudices against URMS. Then, the colleges try to fix it with AA, which in turn worsens it. It keeps going around in a cycle.</p>
<p>"If people were truly interested in helping URMs, they would start young. Emphasize education for URMs from an early age. Treat them like others, that way they get the same opportunities as everyone else."</p>
<p>yes. in the ideal world, colleges would fund outreach programs that target low-socioeconomic areas (oftentimes containing many URMs) and reach these kids early. but that's much too big of a burden for colleges to do, and some would argue that the govt should be doing this, not colleges. </p>
<p>AA only helps a select few. for every low-socioeconomic URM that gets into a good college, hundreds more are not helped. but you're right sentient89, AA does NOT address the root of the problem. it's designed to be a temporary solution, and thus like you say, the cycle continues. all AA does is pick up the very top; the rest are still left behind.</p>
<p>I think the original post has been addressed, and we don't need yet another AA debate...</p>